AND THAT'S A WHITE SOX WINNER!!!

Big win today for the White Sox. After losing 3 straight, and looking rather pathetic doing it, the Sox pulled off a big come-from-behind bottom of the 9th victory against a tough California (just call me old school) Angels team. Mark Buehrle pitched a gem as usual and went into the 9th with a 3-2 lead. The Angels got the first two on against MB, and Ozzie went out and brought Marte in. Damaso got a taylor made DP groundball, which Tadahito Iguchi promptly flipped past Juan Uribe, loading the bases with no one out. Cali ended up scoring two runs and going ahead 4-3, while bringing in back up closer Scot Shields to finish things up.

The White Sox managed to get the first two runners on, and got them sacrficed over to 2nd and 3rd on a Scott Podsednik bunt. Tads was due up next, but Ozzie pinchhit Carl Everett, who promptly struckout on 3 pitches. Then by some miracle of God, Timo Perez managed to loop one into short left field to score two runs, and give the Sox a 5-4 win.

The Sox now stand 34-17 and lead the Minnesota Twins by 4 games, including 3 in the loss column. A stat I saw today stated that 70% of teams in first place on the last day of May, since the 8 team playoff format began, have ended up in the playoffs. Hopefully that bodes well for my southsiders.